While you are moving around the bay, be sure to have a quick look at most anything floating on the surface as the Tripletail are still here and will be happy to bite a live or fresh shrimp under a popping cork. Live bait or frozen finger Mullet for the Reds while everybody else would love for you to offer them a live or fresh Shrimp. Dan Fortunas (8) reporting a good numbers of hungry Redfish, Mangrove Snapper, Speckled Trout, and Flounder cruising around the Cut. "In the bay this week the fishing has been pretty good with Capt. Please be aware that if we get strong Southernly winds for a day or more the tides will be higher than forecast and the timing may be off. If you do get out, at the Cut look for low tides at 9 to 10 AM forecast at 1.0 feet followed by a low tide around 4 PM forecast at 2.0 feet. The bottom line is it's going to rain and not a little but a lot and if the low starts spinning things could get sporty in a hurry so but sure to check and recheck the weather before you attempt to go fishing this weekend. Just FISH!!" ST GEORGE ISLANDĬaptain Russ Knapp (85) reports, “Hate to start on a down note but the weather this weekend frankly doesn't look good as a front is forecast to stall and a low pressure system is going to set up in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. It's not a bad thing to chill on the hill if the weather isn't cooperating. Make wise decisions over the weekend, fishing only when a decent opportunity presents. As always, when motoring anywhere on the Big Pond, wear an auto-inflatable PFD. "It's shaping up to be a weekend to err on the side of caution before dropping in the hole, especially if the radar screen is colorful over Apalachee Bay. Until then, the long run to deeper waters is necessary to secure a limit of legal gags. Once shallow water temps slip downward into the 70s, the rock piles will start gaining new, legal size "residents". For now, quality legal gags are hanging in waters 30 to 50 feet over live bottom. "As for shallow rock pile trolling for the gags, bathtub water temps are holding back the migration of the bigger gags to the shallower waters. If a window does present a skinny water opportunity, work the creek mouths during the rise into the strong mid-afternoon flood tide. There's always hope in an angler's tackle bag. The current NWS Marine Forecast for the Four County Big Bend is not overly promising, and I'm an angler consumed with hope and optimism for a chance to wet a line. "This next three day stretch going into the full moon could be awesome, but as of midweek, it appears Ma Nature will likely be delivering heavy rains over the Big Bend. It's definitely the "walk the dawg" time of year that's arriving along the Big Bend coastline. Both species have been devouring topwater offerings. The bigger trout seemingly dined in similar fashion during the first hours of the morning. The reds were certainly active from Carrabelle eastward beyond the Aucilla. Otto Hough (Facebook says, ”The "between the moons" fishing over the past Labor day weekend was decent, with the better catches along the coast happening right after safelight and just before the twilight hour arrived, continuing on into midweek.
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